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Sightseeing Tours Barcelona
Tours of Spain on foot, by bicycle and much more

By Damian Corrigan, About.com

If a walking tour is too, well, pedestrian for you, then try one of these other sightseeing tours on this page. You have a lot of choice in Barcelona when it comes to sightseeing tours. If it will navigate Barcelona's narrow streets, there'll be a tour you can do on it - and that includes tricycles, scooters and much more!

Or you could just plum for your standard Barcelona Gothic Quarter Walking Tour or one of these other Barcelona Walking Tours.

1. Hop-On-Hop-Off Sightseeing Bus Tour of Barcelona

You see these buses everywhere - for good reason! A hop-on-hop-off sightseeing bus tour of Barcelona can be used all day, allowing you to see the sights you want to see and get shuttled to the next one in an open-top bus, allowing you to bask in the sunshine while a guide tells you about the history of the city.

2. Sightseeing Scooter Tour of Barcelona

Get around the city much, much faster than you'd be able to on foot with a sightseeing scooter tour of Barcelona. This tour lasts three hours, during which you'll see all of Barcelona's most famous sights. Ride your scooter on your own or share with a friend.

3. Sightseeing Cycling Tour Barcelona

If the idea of riding a scooter in Barcelona scares you a little, take the more sedate option - a sightseeing tour by bicycle.

This leisurely bike tour takes you round most of Barcelona's biggest sights, including Placa del Rei, La Sagrada Familia, Parc de la Ciutadella, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Arc del Triomf, Vila Olímpica, Barceloneta beach, Port Vell, El Borne and Basilica de la Santa Maria del Mar.

4. Trixi Tricycle Sightseeing Tour of Barcelona

Get taken around Barcelona on a funky little tricycle. Like a futuristic rickshaw ride, on these state-of-the-art tricycles you choose the route and your slave, I mean, guide does all the hard work, showing you around the city and commentating on the sights along the way. For the full pampered experience, get your traveling partner to fan you as you are whisked along.

5. Go Car Independent Sightseeing Tour

Now these look fun! I actually found the garage to this company while wandering Barcelona's backstreets, but never got a chance to try them out. These little go-carts look like cars but are mopeds in the eyes of the law, which means they can drive and park where normally only bikes are allowed to go. Their GPS navigation system takes you around the best sights in Barcelona, but you aren't tied to the route - go wherever takes you like!

Note: you need your driver's license with you. Insurance is included.

6. 'Kickbike' Penny-Farthing Push Scooter

What are these things? What do you call them? A strange cross between an old penny farthing and a push scooter, these things will make sure you are the center of attention as you ride around Barcelona.

You have the choice of being led by an expert local tour or riding off to explore on your own.

7. Segway Sightseeing Tour of Barcelona

Segways never caught on as the mass form of transport their designers had hoped they would, but they've taken tour guide companies' imaginations by storm. Everyone needs to ride a segway at least once in their lives - why not do it in Barcelona?

The tour lasts about two hours and takes you around all of Barcelona's best sights. A quick orientation is all that is needed to operate a segway.

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